Beyond best practice, toward the right way
Exploring leadership, strategy, and organizational dynamics through systems thinking and structural analysis
Most leaders default to carpentry—designing blueprints, optimizing machines, fixing people. But the question is not whether to be a carpenter or a gardener. It is knowing which mode fits the challenge in front of you.
How organizations manufacture meaning when authenticity becomes simulation—and what leaders can do to restore the conditions for realness.
The most cooperative CEOs build the strongest defenses. Why do even well-intentioned leaders become power maximizers? Mearsheimer's offensive realism reveals how structural conditions transform cautious actors into aggressive competitors.
What if the data that bankrupts strategy is the data you literally can't keep in mind? A deep dive into organizational forgetting, antimemetic knowledge, and the spaces where institutional memory fails to form.
Why boards praise bold vision but fund incremental change, and how to bridge the risk gap that keeps organizations stuck
From algorithmic management dashboards to identical office murals, modern firms are collapsing into one gray template. A new 'control society' — part Weberian iron cage, part cloud-software panopticon — is quietly shaping capitalism's next act, and it's flattening innovation.
Every new CEO inherits structures that once enabled growth but now constrain it. From Ron Johnson's JCPenney disaster to Satya Nadella's Microsoft transformation, a practical guide to seeing, navigating, and reshaping organizational constraints.
Beyond best practice, toward the right way. Exploring leadership, strategy, and organizational dynamics through systems thinking and structural analysis.
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"Best practice" is consensus thinking dressed up as wisdom. Project Meridian explores leadership through systems thinking and structural analysis—navigating by principles rather than following the crowd.
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